Park, Hun Joo; Park, Yeun-Sook - 2014
This paper investigates the causes underlying the tragic story of Korea's bicycle industry from what appeared to be as … the world's number one bicycle exporter by 1980, Korea's bicycle industry peaked in the late 1980s without ever reaching … 1990s. This paper examines three key causal factors: Samchuly-Kia's monopolistic complacency; Korea's industrial structure …